Cotton-cultivator wheel.



No. 635,685. 7 Patented on. 24, [899. w. w. HOLLOWAY. COTTON CULTIVATUB WHEEL.

(Application filed Mar. 7, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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ATENT IVILLIS W. HOLLOWAY, OF ROYSE CITY, TEXAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 635,685, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed March 7, 1899. Serial No. 708,105. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TILLIS W. HOLLO- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Royse City, in the county of Rockwall and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Cultivator iVheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cotton-cultivators, and particularly to a cotton cutter or chop per, which consists of a wheel having a sectional rim or periphery of novel and peculiar construction. a

The object of the invention is to provide a cotton cultivator or chopping wheel, the periphery of which will mash down or depress the cotton and then cutit, leaving the standing cotton untouched or unharmed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cotton-cultivator wheel the peripheral sections of which have peculiarly-arranged machine, plow, or other cultivator, or the 7 wheel may have a suitable stock, handles, and necessary mechanism to operate it independently.

The periphery of the wheel is made into a series of sections, with a diamond-shaped opening or space -E between them, and the sections are connected to the hub 1 by spokes 3, having diverging arms 4. The sections comprise a peripheral rim 5, the edges 6 of which fall considerably below the middle or arched center 7 of the rim at each side thereof, having said arched or central portion pro- I truding or projecting beyond the cutters 8,

section, so that all sizes and grades of the cotton depressed by the protruding portion 7 will certainly be cut by the time it reaches the rear end of the knives. The openings allow the standing cotton to be unharmed.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. 4, the rim 9 is made with its protrusion 10 at an angle and the rim is V-shaped in crosssection. This gives a sharper and greater projection between and beyond the cutting edges of the blades or knives 11, so that a greater depression of the small cotton is attained.

I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to any special number of rim-sections, to the manner of producing the protrusion between the knives to the extent of convergency of the knives or means of attaching or forming them on the sections, nor to the size of the wheel or the application of it to any particular machine, as I reserve to myself the right to make such changes, alterations, and modifications therein as maybe found most desirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Acotton-cultivatorwheelcomprisingperipheral arched sections, and a pair of knives extending throughout each section, as set forth.

2. The combination with a sectional cultivator-wheel, of the knives converging from one end to the other of each section, as set forth.

3. The combination with a sectional cultivator-wheel, having an arched periphery, of the knives converging from one end to the other of each section, said arch projecting beyond the cutting edges of the knives, as set forth.

4. In a cotton-cultivator wheel, the combination of the knives, and the Wheel-sections carrying the knives and projecting between ISO In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIS W. HOLLOWAY.

Witnesses:

E. L. STEVENSON, JAMES LIsK. 

